Posts Tagged ‘Gold Hoarding’

The gold market is both amazingly large and stunningly small, depending on how you look at it. On one hand, there’s a tremendous amount of value packed into the shiny metal. But the reason it packs so much value per ounce is that there’s precious little of it in the world. That scarcity could continue to drive up the value of gold as more people stake their claim in the precious metal.

A return to the gold standard in any form is nowhere on anybody’s horizon. It has few supporters in today’s virtually universal embrace of fiat currencies & floating exchange rates. Yet gold has special properties that no other currency can claim. For more than two millennia, gold has had virtually unquestioned acceptance as payment.